Improvement in tack-holding strips



HG. W. GOPELAN'D au M. BROCK.

Tack-Holding Strips. 4

No.'197,609. Patented Nov. 27,1877..

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GEORGE W. OOPELAND, OF MALDEN, AND MATTHIAS BROOK, OF BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO SAID OOPELAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN TACK-HOLDINGSTRIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,609, dated November27, 1877; application filed June 4, 1877.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE W. Gorn- LAND, of Malden, in the county ofMiddlesex, and MATTHIAS BROOK, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, andState of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Tack-Strips, ofwhich the following is a specification:

Our invention relates to an improvement in tack-strips for which apatent was granted January 30, 1877, and numbered 186,663. In the saidpatent the tacks were simply inserted in the lieXible strip with theirheads exposed, and no especial means were provided for retaining thetacks iu place in the strip.

It has been found in practice that the tacks are liable to become loosein the flexible strip,

/so as to render them uncertain of proper ac tion and subject to dropout of the strip. It is the object of our present invention to obviatethis difficulty; and to this end it consists in combining with, andattaching to, the ilexible strip an additional strip of cloth, paper, or

other exible material, which is placed overY the heads of the tacks aterthey have been in` serted in the holding-strip, and there secured bymeans of some adhesive substance, so as to A represents the eXible stripin which the headed tacks B are inserted in any desirable way. Upon thestrip A, and over the heads of the tacks, is placed an additional stripof cloth, paper, or other iiexible material, D, of the same Width as thestrip A, and secured on the same by means of any suitable adhesivesubstance. By this means the tacks are held firmly in position in thestrip without liability of becoming loose, and their perpendicularity inrelation to the strip is` always maintained, thus insuring their propercondition for the action ofthe driver as the strip is fed through themachine.

Thefeeding-strip is shown in Fig. 1 as wound upon aroll, It. Fig. 4.represents a strip, E, curved laterally in the direction of its lengthfor adaptation to purposes where a straight strip might not beavailable.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

A flexible strip' containing metallic tacks, held in position by meansof an adhesive cov.- eri-n g placed over their heads, all substantiallyas shown and described.

In y.testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specication inthe presence of twov subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE w. oorELAND. MATTHIAS BROCK.

Witnesses:

OHAs. F. SLEEPER, .I os. H.v ADAMS.

